Title: Scan Will Not Start
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Scan Will Not Start

 *  Resolved [bethanypresby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethanypresby/)
 * (@bethanypresby)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-will-not-start/)
 * I checked my ajax URL and it works fine. As you can see the scan wants to start.
   Log below (I changed URLs to [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com)):
 * [Feb 24 20:14:08:1393290848.046803:4:info] Scan process ended after forking.
   [
   Feb 24 20:14:04:1393290844.979689:4:info] Starting cron via proxy at URL [http://noc1.wordfence.com/scanp/www.example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=wordfence_doScan&isFork=0&cronKey=b0714a357536fe3332fdad6](http://noc1.wordfence.com/scanp/www.example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=wordfence_doScan&isFork=0&cronKey=b0714a357536fe3332fdad6)[
   Feb 24 20:14:04:1393290844.948818:4:info] Test result of scan start URL fetch:
   array ( ‘headers’ => array ( ‘date’ => ‘Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:14:03 GMT’, ‘server’
   => ‘Apache’, ‘set-cookie’ => ‘wfvt_317343406=530bee5c60d10; expires=Tue, 25-Feb-
   2014 01:44:04 GMT; path=/’, ‘x-pingback’ => ‘[http://www.example.com/xmlrpc.php&#8217](http://www.example.com/xmlrpc.php&#8217);,‘
   link’ => ‘<[http://wp.me/P4mddB-G&gt](http://wp.me/P4mddB-G&gt);; rel=shortlink’,‘
   connection’ => ‘close’, ‘content-type’ => ‘text/html; charset=UTF-8’, ), ‘body’
   => ‘ <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=”en-US” prefix=”og: [http://ogp.me/ns#”&gt](http://ogp.me/ns#”&gt);
   <head> <meta charset=”utf-8″> <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=
   edge,chrome=1″> <meta name=”HandheldFriendly” content=”True”> <meta name=”MobileOptimized”
   content=”320″> <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale
   =1.0″/> <link rel=”icon” href=”[http://www.example.com/assets/favicon.ico&#8221](http://www.example.com/assets/favicon.ico&#8221);/
   > <link rel=”pingback” href=”[http://www.example.com/xmlrpc.php”&gt](http://www.example.com/xmlrpc.php”&gt);
   <link href=\’[http://fonts.google](http://fonts.google) [Feb 24 20:14:02:1393290842.186207:
   4:info] getMaxExecutionTime() returning half ini value: 15 [Feb 24 20:14:02:1393290842.186022:
   4:info] Got max_execution_time value from ini: 30 [Feb 24 20:14:02:1393290842.185816:
   4:info] Got value from wf config maxExecutionTime: [Feb 24 20:14:02:1393290842.177174:
   4:info] Entering start scan routine [Feb 24 20:14:02:1393290842.176631:4:info]
   Ajax request received to start scan.
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 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-will-not-start/#post-4646291)
 * Hi,
 * I just put a fix in Wordfence for the next version that may improve this, so 
   when you see the new release, please upgrade and then scroll to the bottom of
   the options page and check the option for remote scan starting.
 * Regards,
 * Mark.
 *  Thread Starter [bethanypresby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethanypresby/)
 * (@bethanypresby)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-will-not-start/#post-4646293)
 * It turns out our theme was using a hook to block admin access for unauthenticated
   users. I added a check for the DOING_AJAX constant to the code and it fixed the
   redirect.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-will-not-start/#post-4646293)
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